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liveness

The English word “liveness” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The property of being alive.
  2. A set of properties of a concurrent system that require the system to make progress despite the fact that its concurrently executing processes may have to take turns in critical sections.

Etymology

From live + -ness.

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